Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] girls ' " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 The idea of classroom observation encouraged some teachers to observe each other , and one group , for example , began some research on girls ' talk .
2 Observation in labs and workshops highlighted the depressing effect on girls ' performance of the boys ' claim to science as their subject .
3 She might have been the headmistress of a certain type of girls ' school , now almost extinct , or a Mother Superior in an enclosed order .
4 A boy on a girl 's back , boy in girls ' shoes and a girl in boy 's shoes , girl in a boy 's sweater .
5 Amongst liberals , there has been a tendency to believe that remedying the gender imbalances in these books might have a positive influence on girls ' educational achievement .
6 There is some evidence that in mixed-sex classrooms teachers give more attention to boys , to the detriment of girls ' learning .
7 No study looks systematically either at the role of girls vis-à-vis masculine delinquency , or at the possible importance of girls ' groups in female deviancy .
8 I thought of myself as a connoisseur of girls ' good looks ; and I knew that this was one to judge all others by .
9 Further , there is such a large overlap between girls ' and boys ' test or examination results that it is true to say that a great many girls do better at mathematics than the majority of boys .
10 Also in this category , but published for the first time in this volume , is the article Jackie And Just Seventeen which not only records changes in the content of girls ' magazines over the 80s ( since McRobbie 's original analysis of the late 70s , also included here ) but registers theoretical developments as well through its attention to the ways in which girls as readers both construct their own meanings and interact with the texts .
11 Doctors believed that the development of girls ' reproductive systems took place primarily at the time of menstruation and , in keeping with Spencer 's belief in the need to conserve energy in order to ensure healthy reproductive development , advised rest for teenage girls .
12 BRITISH GAS ON THE BALL WITH GIRLS ' SOCCER
13 A Comparison of Girls ' Comics from 1983 and 1993
14 Boys ' education is seen as likely to bring direct economic benefit to the family and so is given priority over girls ' education .
15 She suggests a synthesis between the two approaches which looks at the diversity of girls ' educational experiences , and the ways in which schoolchildren challenge class and gender controls .
16 Maude Stanley , for example , a founder of girls ' clubs , voiced the wider social anxiety about the role of girls in the alleged deterioration of the race and the threat of over-population among the working class .
17 It recommended that the pace of girls ' education be slowed , that physical education reflect the need of girls for ‘ smoothness and expressiveness ’ and of boys for ‘ strength and energy ’ , and that allowance be made for the effect of menstruation , which condemned many girls ‘ to a recurring and temporary diminution of general mental efficiency ’ .
18 Lyn Yates ( 1985 ) suggests that this type of deficit approach , which in effect blames the victim , is also the most common approach to girls ' schooling .
19 According to this grouping , genetic or innate differences in ability would go into the ‘ cognitive ’ basket , as would another hypothesis , namely , that the reason for girls ' lower achievement in mathematics is their poorer spatial visualisation ability .
20 When we were first creating the model for girls ' work , those of us who are white , both lesbian and heterosexual , developed work that was racist , that is , based on our ideas about how sexism affected white girls , and what kind of provision white girls might need .
21 I would therefore argue that even if the discrepancy between girls ' and boys ' performance at the top levels of achievement in mathematics was entirely due to differences in ability ( which I do not believe , but nevertheless should stay as a possible hypothesis ) , there is a strong case for saying that we should act to try to alter the situation .
22 There 's a list of girls ' names in here .
23 She was a governor of University College London , the London School of Medicine , and a number of girls ' schools .
24 These show that there has been a gradual improvement in girls ' performance in mathematics relative to that of boys .
25 For example , in the old 16+ system , despite a gradual improvement in girls ' achievements ( see , for example , the table below ) , each year more boys than girls were entered for O level mathematics , and of those who entered , a higher proportion of boys than girls obtained grade A. At CSE , the entry ( and pass ) rate of girls has in recent years been higher than that of boys — but boys have obtained the most grade I passes .
26 The Girls and Mathematics Unit has carried out a substantial number of project on girls ' classroom performance in Mathematics , spanning nursery to secondary schools .
27 Both girls represented their country at girls ' and senior level last season , and must be in line for an appearance at the European Championships at Wentworth in July .
  Next page